Kenneth Jerome Blow, Jr. 27, will now be sentenced Friday, October 24, after pleading nolo contrendre to a count of gross vehicular manslaughter while driving under the influence. He was driving on Highway 330 when the vehicle rolled claiming the life of an 18-year-old woman. (File Photo)
By G. T. Houts
UPDATE: Tuesday. October 21 – 4:15 p.m.
San Bernardino, CA – Judge Katrina West met with attorneys in chambers before granting a continuance by stipulation in the sentencing of the 27-year-old man involved in a DUI fatality on Highway 330 on June 22, 2012.
Kenneth Jerome Blow, Jr., from Lakewood, will now appear in Department S-20-A, at 8:30 a.m., on Friday, October 24, for sentencing. Blow pleaded nolo contendre to one felony count of gross vehicular manslaughter and a misdemeanor count of driving while his license was suspended for driving under the influence.
He remains in custody at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga.
ORIGINAL STORY
San Bernardino, CA - The 27-year-old man involved in a DUI fatality on Highway 330 on June 22, 2012, returns to court Tuesday, October 21, for sentencing after pleading nolo contendre to one felony count of gross vehicular manslaughter and a misdemeanor count of driving while his license was suspended for driving under the influence.
Kenneth Jerome Blow, Jr., from Lakewood, will appear in Department S-20, at 8:30 a.m. He remains in custody at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga. Bail was set at $1.2 million .
THE CASE
Blow accepted the plea bargain September 22 before Judge Katrina West after being originally charged with murder when his vehicle rolled over ejecting an 18-year-old female passenger — Rebecca Leigh Green from Lakewood. She was pronounced deceased at the scene of the accident about 6:50 p.m. on June 22, 2012.
Rebecca Leigh Green (Contributed Photo)
California Highway Patrol investigators determined Blow was traveling southbound on Highway 330, south of Highway 18, at the time of the crash. Blow was reportedly unable to maintain control of the Ford Focus and allowed the car to drift off the roadway.
A media release from the CHP Arrowhead Office indicates Blow then veered out of control, across the southbound and northbound lanes, where his vehicle impacted and traveled up the mountainside.
The impact caused the vehicle to overturn and eject the 18-year-old woman who was pronounced deceased at the scene by Running Springs Fire paramedics. Blow was partially ejected from the vehicle during the incident.
Two additional passengers in the vehicle — Tony Willevy, 22, and Robert Mathews, 24, both from Bellflower — were treated and released at Loma Linda University Medical Center. (212)